WPA NEWSOfficial Quarterly News Bulletin of WPA

WPA NEWS JULY 2017

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Happy to come back to

you again! We had a very

fruitful period of activi-

ties during the last three

months. The major event

during the period was the

WPA Inter Zonal Con-

gress at Vilnius, Lithuania 3-6 May 2017. Theme:

“Changing Society, Changing Psychiatry and Chang-

ing Self”. Nearly 500 psychiatrists from 40 countries

attended. WPA President Dinesh Bhugra presided.

Part of the Congress was held in the Lithuanian

Parliament. Minister of Health Aurelijus Veryga

and EU Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis spoke

at the Congress. Hearty congratulations to Alvydas

Navickas and his committed team! The WPA Plan-

ning Committee met at Florence, Italy on March

31-April 1 chaired by WPA President-Elect Helen

Herrman and discussed changes in WPA Statutes

and By-Laws. My second visit to the WPA Secretar-

iat, Geneva took place on April 8 and 9, 2017. We

had useful planning on the arrangements for WPA

Berlin Congress and discussions with Andrea and

Steffi of CPO Hanser. Updates on our website and

changing our old server to an offsite solution were

also discussed.

The biggest event of the triennium is the World Con-

gress of Psychiatry, October 8-12, 2017. Under the

overall theme “Psychiatry of the 21st Century: Context, Controversies and Commitment”. Visit www.wpaberlin2017.com. WPA has a strong pres-

ence in the social media now. Links to all social

media accounts are incorporated in our website. Our

Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/wpa-

net/. Please visit our newly designed website www.

wpanet.org and kindly send us your valuable com-

ments.

Roy Abraham Kallivayalil Secretary GeneralWorld Psychiatric Association

Message from the President

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

This is my penultimate message to you all as my term draws to a close.

Following the successful launch of Bill of Rights for Individuals with mental illness, a Bill of Rights for children and young people was also launched. I am delighted to report that it is being circulated. Please get your Association/Organisation to sup-port both the Bills of Rights. These are available on WPA website. A Bill of Rights for individuals with intellectual disability is under preparation.

A survey of discrimination has been completed in Commonwealth countries and will be launched on the 3rd World Mind Matters Day on 4th September 2017. Details of the international dis-crimination survey were published in a special issue of International Review of Psychiatry volume 28(4). The contents are available online.

WPA-Lancet commission on Psychiatry report is complete. Copies of the report will be available in the World Congress in Berlin in October 2017.

WPA Position Statements on Homelessness and Mental Health and Mental Health in the Work Place are ready and will be available shortly on the WPA website. Please look out for these on the WPA website.

Following two successful round table meetings on violent radicalisation (hosted by the WPA Col-laborating Centre in London) and another one on early Interventions in Psychiatry (hosted by Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists) the papers from the former are being edited for a special edition of International Review of Psychiatry. A very successful Round Table on Migrant Mental Health in Europe was held in Oslo, Norway in March.

The work on setting up Diploma in Psychologi-cal Medicine in collaboration with University of Melbourne aimed at psychiatrists continues apace and we hope to launch it later this year. We are also working on the Diploma for non-psychiatrists.

We are continuing to look for examples of good clinical practice around the world so that we can learn from each other. Please keep them com-ing. Please check the website regularly and get involved. I look forward to seeing you all in the World Congress in Berlin.

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Prof Mario Maj for his stellar contribution to mak-ing World Psychiatry number 1 journal in the world.

Best wishes,

Dinesh Bhugra, CBEPresident World Psychiatric Association

JULY 2017 www.wpanet.org

Dinesh Bhugra

Message from the Secretary General

Roy Abraham Kallivayalil

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General matters of WPA(including Regional, international and World Congress announcements)

WPA iNTER ZoNAl CoNGRESS: VilNiUS, liThUANiA, 3-6 MAy 2017

Theme: “Changing Society, Changing Psychiatry and Changing

Self”. Five hundred psychiatrists and other mental health pro-

fessionals from more than 40 countries attended. In particular,

we need to extend our thanks to Prof. Dinesh Bhugra, the WPA

President, whose help in all aspects was invaluable. For their help,

encouragement, active participation and input, we would also like

to thank WPA President-Elect Prof. Helen Herrman, Prof. Roy

Abraham Kallivayalil, Prof. Masatoshi Takeda, Prof. Afzal Javed,

Prof. Michelle Riba and Prof. Edgard Belford.

For their participation in the Congress, and even more so for the

invitation to hold part of the Congress in the Lithuanian Parlia-

ment, special thanks are also due to the Lithuanian Seimas (Par-

liament), together with the Chair of the Committee of Health

Agnė Širinskienė and Minister of Health of Lithuania Aurelijus Veryga. As a result, many mental health issues have been brought

to politicians’ attention and they have been motivated to continue

to better understand which direction to carry out mental health

care in Lithuania. We are very grateful to the European Union

Health & Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis who

gave a plenary lecture about mental health in the European Un-

ion together with the Minister of Health Aurelijus Veryga, WPA

President-Elect Prof. Helen Herrman and WPA Secretary General

Prof. Roy Abraham Kallivayalil.

We are very grateful to Prof. Sam Tyano and Prof. Tsuyoshi Akiy-

ama for their very active participation and comprehensive help.

We thank Zonal Representatives Donna E. Stewart, Edmond

Hsin-tung Pi, Silvia Gaviria, Michel Botbol, Jyrki Korkeila, Petr

Morozov, Nahla Nagy, David M. Ndetei, Min-Soo Lee, and others.

Many thanks for Past Presidents of APA Prof. John Oldham and

Prof. Paul Summergrad, who also gave lectures in the Congress.

Special thanks are due to Prof. Norman Sartorius who organized

the Course for Early Career Psychiatrists and to the Nordic Psychi-

atric Association Joint Committee for their active participation.

We have gained new and useful knowledge that will have a posi-

tive impact on the evolution of Psychiatry in Lithuania and are

sure the Congress will serve to assist the changing of the negative

public opinion towards mental health problems in the country.

Alvydas Navickas

President, Lithuanian Psychiatric Association

WPA Congress Vilnius: WPA President Dinesh Bhugra, EU Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, and Lithuania Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga on the dais.

Opening of WPA Congress, Vilnius, Lithuania. WPA President Dinesh Bhugra, Lithuania Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga, and WPA Presi-dent-Elect Helen Herrman are seen in the front row.

WPA EC meeting at Vilnius Congress. Seen from left to right are: Edgard Belfort, Francesca Sotgiu, Michelle Riba, Afzal Javed, Dinesh Bhugra (WPA President), Alvydas Navickas, Helen Herrman, Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, Masatoshi Takeda, and Beatrice Telschow.

Dear Colleague,

Amendments to WPA

Statutes and By-Laws

I am writing to you in

my capacity as Chair-

person of the WPA Plan-

ning Committee. The Planning Committee has

been meeting over the last three years and has

undertaken a thorough review of the WPA Stat-

utes and By-Laws. A number of amendments

have been prepared by the Planning Committee

and approved by the WPA Executive Commit-

tee. We hope the changes will modernise and

streamline the WPA while being cost-effective.

These amendments will be presented for dis-

cussion at the WPA Extraordinary General As-

sembly on the morning of 10 October 2017 dur-

ing the World Congress of Psychiatry in Berlin.

We have already sent you a copy of the pro-

posed amendments in the document entitled

“Synopsis” and an Explanatory Memorandum

giving further details on each amendment.

Could I ask you, or your relevant Committee,

to look through these proposed amendments

and to send any comments by September 15th

at the latest. Your comments should be sent to:

wpasecretariat@wpanet.net. We shall compile

the comments received and table them at the

Extraordinary General Assembly. In order to

facilitate discussion and the duration of the

meeting we would ask you kindly to send

your comments in advance by the deadline

rather than present them for the first time at

the meeting. I look forward to our discussion

in October.

With best wishes,

Prof. Helen Herrman

Chair, WPA Standing Committee on Planning

and WPA President-Elect

NB: If you have not received a copy of the pro-

posed amendments and the explanatory mem-

orandum, please write to

wpasecretariat@wpanet.org for a copy.

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To WPA Member Societies

Helen Herrman

WPA NEWS July 2017

From the Secretary for Scientific Meetings

Final Programme

of the WPA XVII

World Congress of

Psychiatry is now

uploaded

There are only 100 days

until the XVII World

Congress of Psychiatry at Messe Berlin, Ger-

many, 8–12 October 2017, the most important

event of WPA.

The 17th World Congress will be hosted by the

German Association for Psychiatry, Psycho-

therapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN) under

the theme of “Psychiatry of the 21st Century:

Context, Controversies and Commitment”

in which renowned speakers from all over

the world will give plenary lectures, includ-

ing Dinesh Bhugra (WPA President, London,

UK), Helen Herrman (Co-Chair and WPA

President-Elect, Australia), Fabrizio Benedetti

(University of Turin, Italy), Prabha Chandra

(National Institute of Mental Health and Neu-

rosciences, India), Richard Sennett (New York

University, USA), Wolfgang Gaebel (LVR-

Klinikum, Heinrich-Heine-University Düssel-

dorf, Germany), Stephen Scott (Kings College

London, UK), Sir Michael Meaney (The Doug-

las Hospital Research Centre, Canada), Ed-

ilma Yearwood (Georgetown University, USA),

Andreas Heinz (Charité University Medicine

Berlin, Germany), Linda C. W. Lam (The Chi-

nese University of Hong Kong), Jair de Jesus

Mari (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil),

Driss Moussaoui (Honorary Fellow, WPA, Mo-

rocco), Anand Satyanand (Former Governor

General of New Zealand), Martin Bohus (Cen-

tral Institute of Mental Health Mannheim,

Germany), Frank Schneider (University Hos-

pital RWTH Aachen, Germany), Sir Michael

Marmot (UCL Institute of Health Equity, Lon-

don, UK), Peter Lehmann (BOP&P e. V.), and

Hilkka Kärkkäinen (GAMIAN Europe).

Interesting scientific site visit programmes

are arranged in pre- and during Congress:

Visit to Munich (6-8 October) (Psychiatric

Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians Univer-

sity (LMU) with lectures by Prof. Dr. Peter

Falkai, Prof. Dr. Oliver Pogarell, and Dr.

Robert Perneczky); visit to Heidelberg (6-8

October) will be at the University Hospital

Heidelberg with lectures by Professor Her-

pertz, Professor Fuchs, and Dr. Rotzoll. Dur-

ing the Congress, you may visit the Medical

Historical Museum at the Charité in Berlin

(11 October), and to the Topography of Ter-

ror and T4 Memorial in Berlin (12 October).

Masatoshi Takeda, MD, PhD

WPA Secretary for Scientific Meetings

Masatoshi Takeda

29 June 2017

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From the Secretary for Scientific Sections

Scientific Sections are

continuously involved

in different activities

related to promotion

and dissemination of

scientific knowledge

around the globe. We

are now a family of 72

Sections and there is still an interest in having

more to cover other scientific sub-specialties.

During the first half of this year, there has

been a noticeable increase in the number of

WPA co-sponsored meetings, joint intersec-

tional activities and other related intersection-

al accomplishments. Sections’ participation

in the recently held WPA Inter Zonal meeting

at Vilnius, Lithuania, and in the 5th Congress

on Neurobiology, Psychopharmacology and

Treatment in Thessaloniki, Greece has been

outstanding. The Sections have also organ-

ized training workshops, round table discus-

sions and educational activities in different

meetings along with producing position state-

ments and discussion documents on impor-

tant topics that correspond to their expertise.

We are preparing a schedule of Sections busi-

ness meetings at Berlin and hope many of our

Sections’ proposals will be accepted for the

WPA Berlin Congress.

We are optimistic for keeping an on-going en-

thusiasm of Sections’ leadership for their fu-

ture work especially looking at further contri-

butions to the excellence of scientific knowl-

edge and the development of advanced and

pioneering approaches in psychiatric practice.

Afzal Javed

WPA Secretary for Scientific Sections

Afzal Javed

We are coming to the end of a very exciting

triennium, under the leadership of Professor

Dinesh Bhugra. The WPA Scientific

Publications Committee has been quite

active in working with Secretary General Roy

Abraham Kallivayalil to uploading open-

access journals to the WPA Webpage and we

continue to add journals from throughout

the world, including recent submissions

from Professor Juan Maass from Chile.

Members of the WPA Scientific Publications

Operational Committee include Co-chair

Dusica Lecic Tosevski; Reinhard Heun,

Peter Tyrer, Christopher Szabo, Alfredo Cia,

Prabha Chandra, Joao Mauricio Castaldelli-

Maia. It has been a privilege to serve with

such an outstanding group of dedicated

colleagues and we look forward to fulfilling

our goals over the next several months.

We have tried to hold presentations at

various WPA regional meetings to help

young psychiatrists better understand how

to get published. In Berlin at the WPA XVII

World Congress of Psychiatry, Hussien

Elkholy, Michelle Riba, Felipe Picon,

Peter Tyrer, Rajiv Radhakrishnan will be

presenting on ECPs Section Workshop on

Academic Publishing. Under the leadership

of Christopher Szabo and Prabha Chandra

and with Peter Tyrer, Dusica Lecic-Tosevski,

Joao Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia and

Reinhard Heun, there will be a scientific

presentation on “Overcoming the Problems

of Publication”. These two presentations

will be wonderful opportunities to discuss

a range of aspects regarding publications –

obstacles and challenges, as well as ways to

be successful.

We continue to appreciate the work of

Professor Alfredo Cia in his development and

organization of the WPA Ibero-American

Library, and for his commitment and

dedication to this important repository for

Spanish-language scientific texts, supported

by the WPA.

Our journal, World Psychiatry, under the

direction of editor in chief, Mario Maj, M.D.,

Ph.D. continues to be one of the leading

psychiatric journals in the world. Dr. Maj

will be addressing the General Assembly in

Berlin in October 2017 where we will receive

an update and the latest figures regarding the

journal’s impact factor. We will also have the

opportunity to thank Dr. Maj for his ongoing

scientific work and excellence on behalf of

the World Psychiatric Association.

Professor Juan Mezzich has edited an

extraordinary book on Person Centered

Psychiatry, published by Springer, and this is

being reviewed for World Psychiatric News.

Hopefully this book will be available for

purchase in the next several weeks, at the

APA meeting in San Diego.

We have a new WPA book coming out

published by Springer, Physician Mental

Health and Well-Being: Research and

Practice, Michel eds. Kirk Brower, MD and

Michelle Riba, M.D. This book will be part

of the Primary Care Series, series editors

Dinesh Bhugra and Michelle Riba.

Michelle Riba, M.D., M.S.

WPA Secretary for Scientific Publications

From the Secretary for Scientific Publications

WPA SCiENTiFiC PUBliCATioNS: BooKS AND JoURNAlSWPA Secretary for Scientific Publications, Michelle B. Riba, mriba@umich.edu

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From the Secretary for Education

I am pleased to report

that the proposal of the

Secretary for Education

of the World Psychiatric

Association, the WPA

Executive Committee

and its President, to cre-

ate the Task Force to

study and lay down the

principles and priorities for a framework for

training psychiatrists has been finalized. It

will be published and sent to scientific soci-

eties. The work has been developed by the

WPA Operational Committee on Education

which met several times in different places

and events as Madrid (Spain), Cape Town

(South Africa), Cuenca (Ecuador) and Vil-

nius (Lithuania), with the logistic support of

the Foundation “Juan José López-Ibor”.

The summary of the interim report of the

World Wide Survey of Training Needs and

provisions of Psychiatrists, Task Force of Ba-

sic Core Curriculum of Psychiatrists to iden-

tify the duration, the range, and the types

of psychiatric training in different countries

of different levels of income reported by na-

tional societies of psychiatry, members of the

World Psychiatric Association (WPA), will

be published in our regular communication

networks. I take advantage of these lines, to

thank all member societies for their answers.

In addition, we are very happy to report that

we have received the proposals for a new on-

line course: “Cultural Competence in Mental

Health and Addictions: Working with Cultur-

ally Different People”, in close collaboration

between the Psychiatric Service University

Hospital Vall d’ Hebron, the University of

Barcelona (Spain), and the World Psychiatric

Association accreditation. It will be in Eng-

lish and will start this next July. A first group

of 20 professionals is proposed. We look for-

ward to receiving the proposals of more can-

didates from other WPA components and

societies, to start the next group. We hope

this activity will be of great academic value.

Finally, I would like to express my grateful-

ness to my colleagues, members of the Ex-

ecutive Committee, the Operational Com-

mittee on Education, and to each member

of the various WPA components, for the op-

portunity and support given to fully serve our

WPA institution.

MEETING OF THE OPERATIONAL

COMMITTEE AND THE TASK FORCE

ON EDUCATION: Attendants: Edgard

Belfort (Venezuela), Maria Ines López Ibor

(Spain), Pedro Ruiz (USA), Michel Botbol

(France), Silvia Gaviria (Colombia), Marc

Herman (Belgium), Virginia Rosabal (Costa

Rica), Freedy Pagnussat (Uruguay), Fran-

cisco Collazo (Spain), Constantin Soldatos

(Greece), Bulent Coskun (Turkey). March

20-21, 2017. Madrid, Spain.

Results: Excellent work group in the final

structure of the document. Thanks to each

of the participants for supporting their own

travel ticket and to López-Ibor Foundation

for their collaboration in the logistics of the

meeting and hosting the team.

EDUCATIONAL SESSION: WPA Zonal

Representatives at the World Congress of

the World Association of Dual Disorders

(WADD) & V International Congress of the

Spanish Society of Dual Disorders (SEPD)

on March 23-26, 2017. Madrid, Spain. “So-

cio-demographic considerations of substance

abuse in child population in Latin America”.

Results: Excellent. No cost for WPA.

EDUCATIONAL FORUM: Child Violence

in the Latin American Context. Central

American Psychiatry Association Congress

(ACCAP), April 5th to 7th, 2017, San Pedro

Sula, Honduras. Collaborators: Edgard Bel-

fort (Venezuela) WPA Secretary for Educa-

tion, Pedro Ruiz (USA) WPA Past President,

Virginia Rosabal (Costa Rica) WPA Zone

3, Silvia Gaviria (Colombia) WPA Zone 4,

Freedy Pagnussat (Uruguay) Collaborator.

Results: Excellent. No cost for WPA.

DECLARATION DOCUMENT: Declara-

tion of San Pedro Sula. Honduras: Violence

in Children and Adolescents in the Latin

American context. Signed by the presidents

of the Psychiatric Societies of Central Amer-

ica and the Caribbean.

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES: WPA Inter

Zonal Congress, Vilnius, Lithuania. Dates:

May 3-6, 2017. APA-WPA International Lead-

ership in Psychiatry. APA Annual Meeting

2017. San Diego, California, EE.UU. Marriot

Marquis Hotel.

ACCREDITATION: was given to several

events.

Edgard Belfort

WPA Secretary for Education

Edgard Belfort

WPA NEWS July 2017

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GloBAl ACTioN PlAN oN ThE PUBliC hEAlTh RESPoNSE To DEMENTiA 2017-2025

Tarun Dua and Shekhar Saxena * The World Health Assembly in May 2017

adopted the global action plan on the pub-

lic health response to dementia 2017-2025

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/

releases/2017/dementia-immunization-ref-

uguees/en/. World Health Assembly con-

sists of ministers of health of all 194 mem-

ber states of WHO and is the highest global

decision making body in the area of health.

The plan envisions “a world in which de-

mentia is prevented and people with de-

mentia and their carers live well and receive

the care and support they need to fulfil their

potential with dignity, respect, autonomy

and equality”. The dementia action plan

specifically highlights the importance of

protecting and promoting human rights and

providing community-based care and sup-

port. The plan emphasizes the need for a

multisectoral response to dementia, align-

ment of dementia actions with those for

mental health, noncommunicable diseases,

ageing and disability, and balance between

dementia prevention, cure and care.

“To achieve the goal of improving the lives

of people with dementia, their families and

carers, while decreasing the impact of de-

mentia on communities and countries”, the

dementia global action plan lists actions

in seven strategic areas: making dementia

a public health priority; increasing demen-

tia awareness and establishing a dementia-

friendly society; reducing the risk of de-

mentia; improving diagnosis, treatment and

care for people with dementia; supporting

dementia carers; enhancing information

systems for dementia and fostering demen-

tia research and innovation.

The dementia global action plan sets out

clear actions for Member States, the Sec-

retariat and partners at the international,

regional and national levels, and proposes

key indicators and global targets that can

be used to evaluate overall levels of imple-

mentation, progress and impact. To move

the dementia agenda forward, WHO is de-

veloping practical tools for Member States

aligning with each of the seven action ar-

eas. These tools include: the WHO Global

Dementia Observatory, which will be also

used to monitor the progress of the action

plan implementation; WHO dementia risk

reduction guidelines; the carer training

programme iSupport; guidance to enhance

diagnosis and management of dementia in

primary health care within WHO’s Mental

Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP)

intervention guide and global agenda for de-

mentia research prioritisation.

The action plan recognises that Member

States, WHO and relevant partners will

have to work collaboratively to ensure a

comprehensive public health response to

dementia. Much of the action will need to

take place within countries, especially in

low- and middle-income countries where

the majority of people with dementia live.

Each Member State faces specific challeng-

es in implementing the action areas iden-

tified above and therefore the action plan

suggests a range of proposed actions that

each Member State will need to adapt to the

national context. WHO will provide techni-

cal assistance to Member States in line with

their individual needs and work closely with

international and national partners, includ-

ing professional associations, to implement

the plan.

*Department of Mental Health and Sub-

stance Abuse, World Health Organization,

Geneva, Switzerland

WHO Global Dementia team at the Seventieth World Health Assembly. Seen left to right: Katrin

Seeher, Tarun Dua, Tania Dussey-Cavassini, Swiss Ambassador for Global Health, Shekhar Sax-

ena, Neerja Chowdhary, Saskia Sivananthan, and Kevin Ramseur.

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JUlES ANGST iS ThE RECiPiENT oF ThE JEAN DElAy PRiZE 2017

The WPA announces that Jules Angst, Emeri-

tus Professor at the Zürich University Psychiat-

ric Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland, is the recipi-

ent of the Jean Delay Prize 2017.

The Jean Delay Prize, awarded by the WPA

every third year, is the most prestigious prize in

the field of psychiatry. It bears the name of

the first President of the WPA, and is award-

ed to an individual who has made a major

contribution in building bridges between

biological, psychological and social aspects

of psychiatry.

Prof. Angst will deliver a lecture at the Open-

ing Session of the 17th World Congress of

Psychiatry, to be held in Berlin, Germany,

from 8 to 12 October 2017.

JEAN DElAy PRiZE

At the end of last century the Jean De-

lay Prize was established to honor distin-

guished colleagues that scholarly bridged

the biological, psychological and social sci-

ences underpinning our clinical profession

and who veritably emblematized our high-

est ethical aspirations.

The Jean Delay Prize is the most important

award of the WPA: it bears the name of Jean

Delay, the President of the first World Con-

gress of Psychiatry (Paris, 1950) and the first

President of our Association. Jean Delay is

one of the most important psychiatrists of

the 20th century, as he introduced chlor-

promazine in the treatment of psychotic

disorders and described for the first time

the antidepressant effect of isoniazide, both

in 1952. In fact, he was both a great scien-

tist and humanist. His eminent disciples

include Pierre Pichot, Pierre Denicker and

Raymond Sadoun.

The Jean Delay Prize consists of a diplo-

ma, a medal and a check for the amount

of 40,000 Euros. The awardee is expected

to deliver a lecture at the XVII World Con-

gress of Psychiatry, Berlin, Germany, 8-12

October 2017. From the beginning, a gener-

ous unrestricted grant from Servier made

this award possible.

Past awardees

Mitsumoto Sato in 2014

Kenneth S. Kendler in 2011

Professor Hans-Jürgen Möller in 2008

Professor Otto Steenfeldt-Foss in 2005

Professor Hagop Akiskal in 2002

Professor David Goldberg in 1999

ThE lóPEZ iBoR CliNiC: 50 yEARS oF hiSToRy AND Ex-PERiENCE

The López Ibor Clinic was founded in 1967.

Led first by its founder, Professor Juan José

López Ibor, then by his son, Professor Juan

José López-Ibor Aliño and at present by the

Managing Board of the Clinic made up of

his four children and a sister. The building,

surrounded by gardens, is ideally located on

a plot of more than two hectares, right next

to Madrid’s ring road and is cataloged in the

architectural guide of the College of Archi-

tects of Madrid.

Juan José López Ibor was a convinced de-

fender of the most up to date clinical explo-

ration techniques. He was

the first one to install an

electroencephalograph in

Spain, a Grass of four chan-

nels. The second TAC and

the first one exclusively for

the brain, was installed in

the López Ibor Clinic and

afterwards a PET, a PET/

CT and a Cyclotron were

installed. The first Brain

Mapping equipment in Eu-

rope has also been installed in this Clinic.

It was the third or fourth place in the world

that began with the systematic use of Lithi-

um, the first to use Clozapine, depot antip-

sychotics and it is one of the few institutions

dedicated to Deep Brain Stimulation.

The WPA Secretariat and the office of the

President were once located at the López-

Ibor Clinic. Today and for 50 years, the

López Ibor Clinic offers comprehensive psy-

chiatric mental health care for out and day

patients. In the year 2005, López-Ibor cre-

WPA NEWS July 2017

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Upcoming WPA Major Scientific Congresses WPA Secretary for Scientific Meetings, Masatoshi Takeda, m-takeda@aino.ac.jp

WPA WoRlD CoNGRESS oF PSyChiATRy8–12 oCToBER 2017BERliN, GERMANy

This year’s congress highlight will be jointly hosted by the World

Psychiatric Association (WPA) and the German Association for

Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN). Meet re-

nowned experts from the whole world and discuss the latest trends

in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses. You

can look forward to a high-quality scientific programme that’s in a

class of its own. National and international top experts will be at-

tending the World Congress.

Continuing education at the highest level

At the WPA XVII WORLD CONGRESS OF PSYCHIATRY you

can keep your knowledge up to date and expand it. The practice-ori-

ented courses of the educational programme are designed to teach

subject-specific and interdisciplinary contents and to enhance prac-

tical skills. You can choose from about 20 courses, each of which

will last about four hours. The courses will be based on the latest

scientific findings. Space is limited to a maximum of 30 partici-

pants. Both EACCME and CME certification is being applied for.

The courses have an additional fee and can be booked when regis-

tering for the congress.

Go on a discovery tour

Besides a top-class scientific programme you can look forward to an

extensive variety of tours. These will include various tours of Ber-

lin, e.g., through the Jewish quarter, Nikolai quarter or government

quarter. In addition, two pre-congress Scientific Visits are being

organised to Heidelberg and Munich. The offerings will also include

visits in Berlin to the Museum of Medical History at the Charité, the

Topography of Terror Documentation Centre and the Memorial for the

Victims of National Socialist “Euthanasia” Killings. The tours have an

additional fee and can be booked when registering for the congress.

ated the Juan José López-Ibor Foundation

(www.fundacionlopezibor.es) whose head-

quarters are located in the Clinic. The Foun-

dation is also the depositary of the López

Ibor library that has about thirty thousand

volumes and publishes the journal “Actas

Españolas de Psiquiatría” founded in 1940.

In 2007, the Regional Ministry of Health

of the Community of Madrid awarded the

Silver Medal to the López Ibor Clinic for its

experience in the diagnosis and treatment

of mental illness and in 2009 the Mayor of

Madrid decided to rename the street into

Doctor Juan José López Ibor. Currently,

the López Ibor Clinic is a consolidated and

steadily growing institution.

Website: www.lopezibor.com

Prof. María Inés López-Ibor Alcocer

and team

WoRlD PSyChiATRy - No 1 JoURNAlThe new impact factor of World Psychiatry

is 26.561, consolidating its position as no. 1

among psychiatric journals worldwide! This

official Journal of WPA is the most wide-

spread psychiatric Journal in the world

reaching more than 40,000 psychiatrists.

Editor: Professor Mario Maj, Naples, Italy.

The journal is also now no. 1 in the overall

Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) cat-

egory.

Motif WCP 2017 Credit: sborisov/Fotolia

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WPA NEWS July 2017

Important travel information

An identity card is sufficient for participants from EU member coun-

tries. All other participants need a valid passport to enter the Euro-

pean Union. Participants from some countries may require a visa.

Visit: www.wpaberlin2017.com, www.facebook.com/wpa2017berlin

and www.wpanet.org

Julie Holzhausen, Scientific Secretariat

Phone: +49 30 240477218

E-mail: wpa2017@dgppn.de

WPA ThEMATiC CoNGRESS MElBoURNE FEBRUARy 25-28, 2018

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join us at the World

Psychiatric Association’s Thematic Congress “Innovation in Psychi-

atry: Effective Interventions for Health and Society” in Melbourne.

This first congress of the new WPA term will be different in both

tone and ambition from international forums of recent years. We

aim to face up to the challenges of innovation, novelty and reform

to make psychiatry more relevant and effective for people with, and

at risk of, mental illness around the world. Proposal Submission

date extended to July 3. Website: http://wpamelbourne.kenes.com/

WPA BERliN 2017: yoUNG FElloWShiP PRoGRAMME AWARDEES - CoNGRATUlA-TioNS!

As part of the 17th World Congress of Psy-

chiatry, Berlin, October 8-12, 2017, Young

Fellowships have been instituted. This

time a total of 222 Fellowships - the larg-

est ever have been awarded. Kindly see list

at www.wpanet.org or the Congress website.

Hearty Congratulations to all the awardees!

Welcoming you all to WCP Berlin once

again! Please visit www.wpaberlin2017.com

for more details.

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News from Zonal Representatives

ZoNE 2 (UNiTED STATES oF AMERiCA)

Anita Everett Begins Term as APA Presi-

dent: The end of the 2017 APA Annual

Meeting marks the beginning of the presi-

dential term for Anita Everett, M.D. During

the Opening Session of the Annual Meet-

ing, she urged, “Keep the engagement go-

ing, and don’t drop the connections you

make at the Annual Meeting. I encourage

each of you to take just one more step to

deepen your involvement with APA”.

Dr. Everett is the Chief Medical Officer

at the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental

Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

and has a core professional background in

Public and Community Psychiatry. She has

emphasized that addressing access to qual-

ity psychiatric care is a priority during her

presidency noting that “effective collabora-

tion with primary care physicians” can be

a remedy to increasing access. To see the

full list of global mental health sessions pre-

sented in San Diego, search “Global Men-

tal Health” at www.psychiatry.org.

Edmond Hsin-tung Pi

WPA Zonal Representative for Zone 2

(United States of America)

Anita Everett, M.D. APA President (2017-18)

ZoNE 4 (NoRThERN SoUTh AMERiCA)

WPA Latin American Regional Meeting,

Cuenca, Ecuador, 6th to 11th of February:

This meeting was organized by the Ecua-

dorian Association of Psychiatry and the

WPA. Distinguished professors from differ-

ent continents and well-known psychiatrists

from Ecuador and other countries of the re-

gion attended this event.

“International Congress for the 50 years

of the Specialized Hospital”, San Juan de

Dios, “New Challenges in Mental Health”,

Quito, Ecuador, February 21 to 23 of 2017:

The religious order of “Los Hermanos de

San Juan de Dios”, Quito headquarters, or-

ganized a congress directed to psychiatrists,

psychologists and nurses. This event was

conceived from an integrative perspective in

the mentally ill patient.

World Congress of Dual Pathology, March

23-26, Madrid: This congress was attended

by psychiatrists and other mental health pro-

fessionals interested in the subject of Dual

pathology. There was a notable participation

of psychiatrists belonging to WPA Zone 4

who developed different modalities of scien-

tific activities. During this event, the World

Dual Pathology Association confirmed its

support in order to develop “The First Latin

American Congress of Dual Pathology in

Medellin”, Colombia, which will be held at

CES University, on September 7-9, 2017

Silvia Gaviria

WPA Zonal Representative for Zone 4

(Northern South America)

L to R: Freddy Pagnussat, Pedro Ruiz, Margarita Alegria, Edgard Belfort, and Sylvia Gaviria.

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ZoNE 9 (CENTRAl EURoPE)

The IV Congress of Psychiatry of Bosnia

and Herzegovina with international partici-

pation will take place on November 16-19,

2017 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzego-

vina. The main theme of the Congress will

be “Psychiatry and Mental Health: Dilem-

mas and Perspectives”. More information at

www.upubih.com/4kongres/en. I hope you

will be able to come and participate at this

valuable scientific event!

Stojan Bajraktarov

WPA Zonal Representative for Zone 9

(Central Europe)

ZoNE 7 (NoRThERN EURoPE)

The WPA Inter Zonal Congress was held

with success in Vilnius, Lithuania from

3rd to 6th of May 2017. It was the first of

its kind in Zone 7. Nordic Psychiatric Asso-

ciations held their meeting at the congress.

The plans are proceeding well for the next

Nordic Congress to be held in Reykjavik Ice-

land from the 13th to the 16th of June 2018

(see more at: www.ncp2018.is).

Important trends and topics regarding psy-

chiatry in the Zone 7 countries were dis-

cussed. The Danish Psychiatric Association

initiated a process that led to the found-

ing of a new network of 28 organizations:

“Psykiatri Alliancen”. There is a major lack

of psychiatrists within the Baltic countries

mostly due to brain drain, because of in-

come differences between other European

countries. In Lithuania, municipalities and

government have put increasing emphasis

on suicide prevention. Decreasing coer-

cion has been an important aim in Norway.

Drug-free wards were mandated by a politi-

cal ultimatum. However, Norwegian stud-

ies implicate that little use of antipsychotic

medication leads to tendency for more in-

voluntary treatment and seclusion. Finland

is still struggling with outlining a health

care reform. The Swedish association has

put a lot of effort in developing their confer-

ence and CME. All the associations empha-

sized the importance of lobbying.

Jyrki Korkeila

WPA Zonal Representative for Zone 7

(Northern Europe)

From left to right, upper row: Elmars Ter-auds (Latvia), Martin Balslev Jorgensen (Nordic Journal of Psychiatry), Thorgun-nurArsaelsdottir (Iceland), Gudlaug Thor-steinsdottir (Iceland), Ola Marsten (Nor-way), Jyrki Korkeila (Zone 7 Representa-tive), Sami Pirkola (Finland), Hans-Peter Mofors (Sweden), Kaire Adamsoo (Estonia), Torsten Jacobsen (Denmark), Thomas Mid-delboe (Denmark), Jan-Olav Johannesen (Norway), and Ramune Mazaliauskiene. Lower row, left to right: Elmars Rancans (Latvia), Nina Lindberg (Finland), and An-ders Lehtmets (Estonia).

ZoNE 10 (EASTERN EURoPE)

Eastern European Educational Academy:

In early April, the regular session of the

Eastern European Educational Academy of

WPA-Servier was held. Young psychiatrists

from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakh-

stan, Russia, and Ukraine took part in the

work of the EPA Congress in Florence and

prepared new surveys on topical problems of

modern psychiatry in order to transfer them

to scientific journals of the WPA Zone 10.

Thus, over 4 years of the Academy’s work,

more than 70 reviews in 10 magazines in 7

countries of Eastern Europe have already

been published. More than 20 young psy-

chiatrists of the 10th WPA Zone have passed

through the Academy.

As usual, members of the Academy had a

meeting with one of the world’s leading psy-

chiatrists. This time, the lecture “When did

it become a mental disorder?” was given by

the ex-President of the WPA and the editor-

in-chief of the journal “World Psychiatry”

Prof. Mario Maj (Italy). Traditionally, as in

a number of previous sessions, a seminar on

communication skills was held for members

of the Academy. WPA-Servier Academy is a

part of the educational program of the WPA.

Lecture by Prof. Mario Maj at EEE Academy.

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ZoNE 11 (NoRThERN AFRiCA)

Annual meeting of the Egyptian Psychiat-

ric Association, 15-17 March 2017, Cairo:

Theme “Challenges in Psychiatric Diagno-

ses”. Egyptian and Arab psychiatrists shared

their research in different psychopathology

topics including new categorizations, dimen-

sional approaches and biological therapies.

Prof. Nahla Nagy discussed the updates in

pharmacogenetics and differential effects in

antidepressants. Zone 11 also participated in

the WPA Inter Zonal Congress in Vilnius.

Ain Shams Institute of psychiatry Inter-

national Congress, May 2017, Cairo: This

annual psychiatric congress invited interna-

tional speakers and early career psychiatrists

to share experience about psychiatric practice

in the green zone. Dr. Minkenberg Transcul-

tural Psychiatrist and Secretary of the board

of Transcultural Psychiatry of Dutch Associa-

tion gave a workshop about transcultural as-

pects in psychiatric practices.

Nahla Nagy

WPA Zonal Representative for Zone 11

(Northern Africa)

412 young psychiatrists from 66 cities of

Russia, Belarus, Poland, Moldova and

Ukraine participated in the 13th Suzdal

School, which was held under the aus-

pices of the WPA and the Russian Society

of Psychiatrists. Such one-week conferences

of young scientists have been held in the an-

cient city of Suzdal (Russia) regularly since

1979. The School was opened by its rector

– Prof. P. Morozov. In addition to lectures,

seminars, round tables, clinical cases and

various training courses, participants took

part in a multi-stage competition for the

best scientific work. A total of 155 reports

were presented, 25 winners received grants

to participate in the School.

Peter Morozov

WPA Zonal Representative for Zone 10

(Eastern Europe)

ZoNE 14 (EASTERN AND SoUThERN AFRiCA)

Kenya Psychiatric Association/African As-

sociation of Psychiatrists and Allied Pro-

fessionals Joint Scientific Meeting, 30th

March-1st April 2017, held in Mombasa,

Kenya: The Kenya Psychiatric Association

(KPA) in conjunction with the African As-

sociation of Psychiatrists and Allied Profes-

sionals (AAPAP) held its Annual Scientific

meeting in the Coastal City Mombasa from

30th March to 1st April 2017. The theme of

the conference was “Implementation of Mental

Health Research for Policy Development in Af-

rica”. The conference attracted participants

from Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, South Africa,

Nigeria, Ghana, Botswana, and UK; that is,

all the three WPA Zones in Africa were rep-

resented. The key speakers represented the

face of Africa. There was strong attendance

of trainees and upcoming researchers who

were given a chance to make their own pres-

entations.

KPA under the leadership of Dr. Simon

Njuguna, is to be congratulated for an excel-

lent conference that represented the face of

Africa and brought together different men-

tal health disciplines under the leadership

of psychiatry and all that with a shoe-string

budget. The office of the WPA Zone 14

played the role of promoting attendance and

linking potential participants to the confer-

ence organizing committee.

David Ndetei

WPA Zonal Representative for

Zone 14 (Eastern and Southern Africa)

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ZoNE 17 (EASTERN ASiA)

Several annual meetings of psychiatric associa-

tions were held in Zone 17. The annual spring

conference of Korea Neuropsychiatric Asso-

ciation was held from April 13 to 14 in Seoul,

South Korea, with 22 symposiums, including

the theme of a biological psychiatry, psycho-

therapy, and public mental health. The plenary

lecture was given by Dr. Julio Licinio, who is an

editor of the journal, Molecular Psychiatry. The

113th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society

of Psychiatry and Neurology will be held with

the theme “Linking psychiatric research, edu-

cation and care: bidirectional talk”, from June

22 to 24 in Nagoya, Japan.

The Korean Mental Health Act, enacted in

1995, had been entirely amended 20 years later,

and the amendment was passed by the Nation-

al Assembly plenary session on May 19, 2015.

The amended Mental Health Act have taken

effect from May 30, 2017. Since 1995, four

amendments have been made according to the

issues about the human rights protection of the

mentally ill. The amended Mental Health Act

reflects the recent rapid changes in the mental

health environment and contributes one more

step toward securing human rights for people

with mental illness.

Min-Soo Lee

WPA Zonal Representative for Zone 17

(Eastern Asia)

News from Member Societies

iNDoNESiAN PSyChiATRiC ASSoCiATioN

The 5th Congress of Asian College of Neu-

ropsychopharmacology (AsCNP) was held

in Bali, Indonesia, from 27th – 29th April

2017. Under the theme “Leap of Recent Neu-

ropsychopharmacology Achievements of This

Decade”, this congress successfully brought

various updated science in Neuropsychop-

harmacology field from many professional

backgrounds and countries. Viewing the high

activity of the congress, there were over 550

registrants from many countries including

Indonesia as host, and from Asian countries

as follows Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong

Kong, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Philip-

pines, Thailand, Egypt, Bangladesh, India,

Tunisia, Nepal, and from overseas countries

as follows Australia, USA, Canada, UK, and

Holland. In conjuction of Indonesia as the

host country, Indonesian Association of Bio-

logical Psychiatry & Psychopharmacology

(IABPP) under Indonesia Psychiatric Associa-

tion was cooperated with AsCNP to bring this

Congress to its success. The congress brought

a great achievement of scientific exchange of

all attendances especially members of colleg-

es and psychiatrists.

AJ Tanra

Board member, Indonesian Psychiatric

Association

A photo taken after the Keynote Lectures. From L to R: Pierre Blier (Canada), Anthony A Grace (USA), John H. Krystal (USA), AJ Tanra (Indonesia), and Kazutaka Ikeda (Japan).

WPA NEWS July 2017

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BANGlADESh ASSoCiATioN oF PSyChiATRiSTS

BAP is the primer platform of psychiatrists

working in Bangladesh since inception in 1975.

The Annual General Meeting and Election for

the Executive committee for 2017-2018 was

held on 11 April, 2017 at Dhaka. The newly

elected committee headed by Prof. Md. Wazi-

ul Alam Chowdhury as the President and Prof.

Mohit Kamal as the General Secretary took

the charge of the office. More than 200 psychi-

atrists from all over the country participated in

the AGM with valuable comments suggestions

and future directions. The new office-bearers

are: President (Dr. Md Waziul Alam Chowd-

hury), Vice-Presidents (Dr. Gopal Sankar Dey,

Dr. Jhunu Shamsun Nahar and Dr. Md. Azizul

Islam), General Secretary (Dr. Mohit Kamal)

and Organising Secretary (Dr. MZR Khan).

We are very happy to inform you that the 9th

International Conference on Psychiatry organ-

ized by Bangladesh Association of Psychiatrists

(BAP) will be held on 11-12 December, 2017

at the Sayeman Beach Resort, Marine Drive

Road, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the largest sea

beach in the world in soothing pre-winter en-

vironment. You are cordially invited to attend

the conference. Detail of the conference will be

available in the official website: www.bapbd.org.

Mohit Kamal

General Secretary, Bangladesh Association

of Psychiatrists

Inaugural session of the Bangladesh Association of Psychiatrists EC.

AZERBAiJAN PSyChiATRiC ASSoCiATioN

In the last few years Azerbaijan Psychiatry As-

sociation was increasingly developed in terms

of professional training of members as well as

research. It was honor to host Prof. Norman

Sartorius and Prof. Graham Thornicroft who

provided advance course on the development

of Leadership and Professional skills. The an-

nual conference of AzPA was held in Baku

in February 2017 where a new Chief editor

of Azerbaijan Psychiatry Journal Prof. Fuad

Ismayilov has been elected. One of the main

goals of Azerbaijan Psychiatry Association is

to support early career psychiatrists in their

professional gross. In April 2017, Azerbaijan

Young Psychiatry Section was officially ac-

cepted as a part of AzPA. Our members have

actively participated at international congress-

es (EPA, ECNP, EFPT). Five psychiatry train-

ees from Azerbaijan have successfully passed

their research fellowship at Harvard University.

After coming back, they organized training for

their junior colleagues on Epidemiology and

Biostatistics at the first time in Azerbaijan.

The main purpose of AzPA is to improve

workforce for future researches and interna-

tional collaboration.

Narmin Guliyeva, General Secretary

Jamila Ismayilova, Secretary for

International Affairs

Azerbaijan Psychiatry Association

2016-2017 Fogarty Fellows Symposium in Boston with Prof. K. Munir, Narmin Guliye-va, General Secretary and Jamila Ismayilova, Secretary for International Affairs, AzPA.

It gives us immense pleasure to invite you all

to the 70th Annual National Conference of

Indian Psychiatric Society, 2018 (ANCIPS

2018) Ranchi to be held from 5 - 8 Febru-

ary 2018 at Central Institute of Psychiatry,

Ranchi. The Conference promises to be an

Academic & Cultural Feast with confluence

of over 3000 Delegates from across the na-

tion & abroad. We would be delighted to

have you here in Ranchi to share your experi-

ences and to contribute to the development

of future trends in PSYCHIATRY.

A city of beautiful water falls, mesmerizing

lakes, and dense forests, Ranchi is the capital

of the Indian state Jharkhand. Blessed with

numerous waterfalls and lakes, Ranchi is

also known as the “City of Waterfalls”. We

look forward to welcome you in the pleasant

weather of January and hope that Ranchi, a

city where the future is being crafted adds aro-

ma to the environment of this scientific meet-

ing. Website: www.ancips2018ranchi.com

MSVK Raju, President

Gautam Saha, General Secretary

Sanjay K Munda, Organising Secretary

Indian Psychiatric Society

iNDiAN PSyChiATRiC SoCiETy

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AMERiCAN PSyChiATRiC ASSoCiATioN

APA Welcomes International Members

and Innovation in San Diego: The 2017

APA Annual Meeting, 20-24 May, with focus

on “Prevention Through Partnerships” was

a great success with attendees from around

the world participating in the four day-long

congress in San Diego, California. APA wel-

comed over 300 new International Members

joining the APA over the past year, at a spe-

cial welcome event. Additionally, over 100

new International Fellows were recognized

during the annual Convocation Ceremony.

The ceremony included the induction of

three new APA International Distinguished

Fellows, Fernando Lolas, M.D. of Chile, Vic-

tor Buwalda, M.D. of the Netherlands, and

Michael Wise, M.D. of the United Kingdom.

The scientific program featured a number

of interactive and innovative learning ex-

periences including the

Psychiatry Innovation Lab

which focused on accelerat-

ing innovative ideas to im-

prove the delivery of mental

health care. Awards went

to several innovations. To

learn more about the APA

Annual Meeting, go to

Psychiatric News at www.

psychnews.org. For infor-

mation on becoming an

APA International Mem-

ber, go to www.psychiatry.

org/international. The American Psychi-

atric Association is composed of a diverse

community of psychiatrists and works in col-

laboration with medical professional organi-

zations and mental health professionals from

around the world. It is dedicated to support-

ing its diverse membership and the diverse

communities they serve.

APA International Distinguished Fellows Fernando Lolas, Victor Buwalda and Michael Wise with the APA Membership Committee Chair, Dr. Rahn Bailey, immediate Past APA President, Dr. Maria Oquendo, and Saul Levin, CEO and Medical Director of APA.

PSyChiATRiC ASSoCiATioN oF BoSNiA-hERZEGoViNAThe IV Congress of Psychiatry of Bosnia and

Herzegovina with international participation,

which will be held on November 16 – 19, 2017

in the City of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herze-

govina). Main theme of the Congress will be

“Psychiatry and Mental Health: Dilemmas and

Perspectives”. The Congress is supported by

the World Psychiatric Association (WPA Co-

sponsored event) and European Psychiatric

Association (under the EPA patronage) as a

part of the continuous and active participa-

tion of our Association in those major psychi-

atric associations. I want to invite you to come

in Banja Luka in November and share your ex-

piriences as well as give active scientific contri-

bution to our Congress. More information are

available on Congress website, www.upubih.

com/4kongres/en. Welcome!

Marija Burgić-RadmanovićPresident, Psychiatric Association of Bosnia-Herzegovina

Prof. Marija Burgić-Radmanović

The traditional Symposium Mostar’s Psychiat-

ric Saturday has been held for the 14th time

in Hotel “ERO” (City of Mostar, Bosnia and

Herzegovina) , on June 3rd, 2017, under the

topic “Psycho-Oncology: Multidisciplinary Approaches”. Great interest for the topic at-tracted more of 190 mental health profession-

als from all over Bosnia and Herzegovina,

as well as Croatia and Slovenia to attend on

dynamic scientific sessions provided by 13

speakers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and

Croatia, and have inspired many attendees

to constructive discussions about this very

intriguing, important and for our region new

discipline in Psychiatry, passing through the

our daily practices. In the beautiful City of

Mostar, which restores both intellectually

and spiritually, we had a pleasant and useful

opportunity to exchange professional experi-

ences and ideas with colleagues and enjoy al-

ways sunny Herzegovina. Therefore, we look

forward to following the next, 15th Psychiatric

Saturday in June 2018.

Dragan Babić, Vice-President Goran Račetović, Secretary General Psychiatric Association of Bosnia-Herzegovina

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CRoATiAN PSyChiATRiC ASSoCiATioN

In April 2017, the Croatian Psychiatric As-

sociation (CPA) organized the 14th Croatian

Psychiatric Days. As every year, this event

focuses on the presentation of clinical cases

and offering the opportunity to talk about

clinical questions of our everyday practice.

This year, a round table on a topic of chang-

ing the system for mental health moving

toward the community based approach was

held. The CPA undertook an additional

work to promote several pilot projects aiming

to re-organize the local hospital based men-

tal health system into a flexible community

mental health approach based on multidis-

ciplinary mobile teams. This is an example

of the CPA pushing towards protection and

improvement of mental health, by making

tangible steps towards more accessible and

more effective treatment of persons with

mental health disorders.

Since the Croatian Parliament declared the

Day of rights of persons with mental illness,

in 2012, the CPA organizes an event together

with other governmental and non- govern-

mental partners in mental health every 6th

of June aiming to promote the rights of per-

sons with mental illness. This year, the CPA

organizes a round table on a topic of “Rights

of persons with mental illness in the context

of Bill of rights for persons with mental ill-

ness issued by the WPA”.

Vlado Jukic, President

Martina Rojnic Kuzman, Secretary General

Croatian Psychiatric Association

RoyAl AUSTRAliAN AND NEW ZEAlAND CollEGE oF PSyChiATRiSTS

The RANZCP is delighted to announce the

launch of our new Your Health in Mind web-

site, a dedicated site which has been devel-

oped to provide expert, trusted information

for the public on mental health. Your Health

in Mind features expert information – writ-

ten in plain English – about mental illnesses,

treatments, the role of psychiatrists, and how

to get help. It’s been designed especially for

Australians and New Zealanders, can be eas-

ily shared, and is based on the best available

evidence. Your Health in Mind provides pa-tients, families and the general public with:

• more than 35 easy-to-read fact sheets

about mental illnesses, treatments and

the health system

• videos to help explain what it’s like to visit

a psychiatrist or a psychiatric hospital

• the RANZCP’s ‘Find a Psychiatrist’ di-

rectory of psychiatrists working in private

practice in Australia

• answers to frequently asked questions

• links to recommended services and sup-

port organisations.

All content has been written and reviewed by

psychiatrists with expertise in each area, and

with significant contribution from consum-

ers and carers. Take a look at yourhealthin-

mind.org now, or follow Your Health in Mind

on Facebook.

The RANZCP also recently welcomed Dr.

Kym Jenkins as its new President. Dr Jenkins

is Medical Director of the Victorian Doctors

Health Program.

KENyA PSyChiATRiC ASSoCiATioN

This year, Kenya Psychiatric Association

(KPA) in conjunction with African Associa-

tion of Psychiatrists and Allied Profession-

als (AAPAP) hosted their annual scientific

conference from 30th March to 1st April at

Pride Inn Paradise Convention Centre in the

coastal city of Mombasa. The theme was “Im-

plementation of Mental Health Research for

Policy Development in Africa”. With an at-

tendance of about 120 delegates from Kenya,

Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Africa, Bot-

swana, Nigeria, Ghana, Pakistan and USA,

we had stimulating and educative discussions

under the subthemes: Translating mental

health research into policy; Policy guidelines

in management of mental disorders; Inte-

grating mental health care in Non Commu-

nicable Diseases (NCD) care and Integrating

mental health care in HIV/AIDS care.

KPA and AAPAP held their respective an-

nual general meetings, which saw the tran-

sitioning of new faces into leadership and

the change of AAPAP to AAP (Association

of African Psychiatrists). Dr. Simon Njug-

una is the Chairman of KPA and Prof. Ab-

dalla Abdelrahman from Sudan, the Presi-

dent of AAP. The conference offered del-

egates an opportunity to interact, network

as well as relax and enjoy the ambience of

the Kenyan Coast. Kindly visit our website

on www.kenyapsychiatrist.org.

Jackline Ochieng

Honorary Secretary, Kenya Psychiatric

Association

KPA-AAPAP Leadership. Front row: Dr. Japheth Ndegwa, Dr. Judy Kamau, Dr. Thomas Muvonde, Dr. Kingi Mochache, Dr. Jackline Ochieng’, Prof. Abdalla Abdelrahman, Dr. Simon Njuguna, Dr. Juliet Nakku, Dr. Abdelrahman Abudoam. Back row: Dr. Susan Hinga, Dr. Ricu Mwenda, Dr. Catherine Gitau, Prof. Solomon Teferra, Prof. Lukoye Atwoli, Dr. Linnet Ongeri, Dr. Mvuyiso Talatala, Dr. Muthoni Mathai.

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iNDiAN ASSoCiATioN FoR SoCiAl PSyChiATRy

We are very happy to welcome you to the 24th

National Conference of Indian Association for

Social Psychiatry, Guwahati, India, 17-19 No-

vember 2017. Theme: “Cultural Diversity and

Mental Health”. Organizers: 1) Department of

Psychiatry, Gauhati Medical College and Hos-

pital 2) Indian Association for Social Psychia-

try. Contacts: a) Dr. Utpal Bora b) Dr. Mamta

Sood. E-mails: a) drubindia77@rediffmail.com

b) soodmamta@gmail.com Website: www.iasp.

org.in/ Congress website: www.nciasp2017.in/

Rajiv Gupta, President

Mamta Sood, Secretary General

Indian Association for Social Psychiatry

AUSTRiAN ASSoCiATioN oF PSyChiATRy AND PSyChoThERAPyWe have hosted the touring exhibition “Reg-

istered-Persecuted-Annihilated – the Sick and

Disabled Under National Socialism” which

was initiated by the German Association for

Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomat-

ics (DGPPN). This has previously been shown

in various locations and different countries,

including Germany, Canada, South Africa,

Japan and Australia. The opening took place

in Vienna and the inaugural address was given

by the president of the National Assembly, fol-

lowed by a panel discussion in Parliament. In

each of the display locations throughout the

country, additional information was provided

including material about local Austrian victims

and offenders. During the annual

conference of our society, the ex-

hibition was made available to all

attendees and we unanimously

adopted a preamble to our statutes

acknowledging the historic guilt

of Austrian Psychiatry under Na-

tional Socialism, and pledging to

do our utmost in order to prevent

such crimes against humanity in

the future.

Sylvia Blebann

Austrian Association of

Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

BRAZiliAN ASSoCiATioN oF PSyChiATRy

The 35th Brazilian Congress of Psychiatry

will take place on October 25th to 28th, 2017,

in São Paulo. There will be over 300 hours of

scientific activities split into 48 thematic areas

throughout the event. Names such as Louise

McCullough (USA), Sidney Kennedy (CAN),

Nora Volkow (USA), Viola Oertel-Knöchel

(Germany) and Joshua A. Gordon (USA),

director of the National Institute of Mental

Health, have already confirmed their confer-

ences during the Congress. About his partici-

pation in the Congress, Dr. Gordon explains

that “there is no substitute for the exchanges

between people that these large international

events provide.” Join us at the 35th Brazilian

Congress of Psychiatry and take part in the best

of scientific update of our specialty in Latin

America. For more information, go to www.

cbpabp.org.br and get to know our programme.

Antônio Geraldo da Silva

President, Brazilian Association of

Psychiatry

NoRWEGiAN PSyChiATRiC ASSoCiATioN (NPA)

With its 2268 members, NPA is the second

largest medical section (next to Primary

Care) within the Norwegian Medical Asso-

ciation. Every year in March, NPA organizes

”Psychiatry week” with lectures, seminars,

work-shops and teaching courses for psychia-

trists and residents in psychiatry. This year

450 members participated.

Emeritus Professor Ulrik Fredrik Malt took

over as president of the NPA May 1st.

Drug-free wards: Following governmental de-

cision, the health authorities have demanded

that psychiatry should offer all patients who

ask for it, a drug-free treatment alternative. This

includes patients with psychotic disorders. No

extra resources are given, however, and there

is no requirement of research to assess bene-

fits and drawbacks. The first in-patient facility

meeting the new requirements have already

been established (6 beds; University Hospital

Northern Norway in Tromsø).

WPA NEWS July 2017

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RUSSiAN SoCiETy oF PSyChiATRiSTS

412 young psychiatrists from 66 cities of

Russia, Belarus, Poland, Moldova and

Ukraine participated in the 13th Suzdal

School, which was held under the auspices

of the WPA and the Russian Society of Psy-

chiatrists. Such one-week conferences of

young scientists have been held in the an-

cient city of Suzdal (Russia) regularly since

1979. The School was opened by its rector

– Prof. P. Morozov. In addition to lectures,

seminars, round tables, clinical cases and

various training courses, participants took

part in a multi-stage competition for the

best scientific work. A total of 155 reports

were presented, 25 winners received grants

to participate in the School.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee

and the Malaysian Psychiatry Association

(MPA), we are pleased to receive delegates

to the 29th World Congress of the Interna-

tional Association for Suicide Prevention

(IASP) and the 21st Malaysian Conference

of Psychological Medicine (MCPM). This

time around the Malaysian Psychiatric As-

sociation (MPA) is working with the Inter-

national Association for Suicide Prevention

and bringing an important conference to

Malaysia. The Borneo Convention Centre

Kuching, Sarawak will be the conference

centre from the 18th -22nd July 2017. We are

excited to have the conference in Sarawak, a

brilliant excellent place to visit.

The themes of the congress “Preventing Sui-

cide: A Global Commitment, from Com-

munities to Continents (IASP) and Mental

Illness: Early Intervention Facilitates Re-

covery (MCPM)” were fittingly chosen. The

themes selected emphasize the direction of

mental health services, in the country and

countries in Asia i.e. looking at developing

and expanding services related to preven-

tion. The conference will provide an oppor-

tunity for all delegates to gain and exchange

knowledge, and thereby enrich experience

and services. Please visit www.iasp2017.org

for more information. Hearty welcome!

Nor Zuraida Zainal

President, Malaysian Psychiatry

Association

MAlAySiAN PSyChiATRiC ASSoCiATioN

Norwegian health

authorities have re-

quired that within

most field of medi-

cine, standardized

procedures for assess-

ment and treatment

of common disorders

or diseases shall be implemented. NPA is in-

volved in developing several of those “pack-

ages”. In March 2017, NPA organized WPA

Round table meeting in Oslo (capital of Nor-

way) on the needs for mental health of refu-

gees and asylum seekers in a European setting.

Scientific committee was psychiatrists Edvard

Hauff and Sverre Varvin and psychologist Nora

Sveaass. WPA President Dinesh Bhugra took

the initiative and participated actively.

Ola Marstein

Special Adviser, Norwegian Psychiatric

Association

Prof. Ulrik MaltPresident, NPA

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JAPANESE SoCiETy oF PSyChiATRy AND NEURoloGy

The 113th Annual Meeting of the JSPN was held

at the Nagoya Congress Centre, Nagoya from

June 22– 24, 2017. Theme: Linking psychiatric

research, education and care: bidirectional talk.

Prof. Norio Ozaki (Nagoya University Depart-

ment of Psychiatry) was the President of the

Congress. The JSPN places great emphasis on

education, with the first of its ten priority items

being the firm establishment and development

of a board certification system and the fifth the

training of the next generation of psychiatrists.

News from WPA SectionsWPA Secretary for Scientific Sections, Afzal Javed, afzal.javed@ntlworld.com

113th JSPN at Nagoya. Seated from

left to right are: Shigenobu Kanba

(President JSPN), Norio Ozaki (Con-

gress President), Michael First, and

Naotaka Shinfuku. Standing: Tsuyo-

shi Akiyama, Kym Jenkins (Presi-

dent RANZCP), Jon Cullen, Helen

Herrman (President-Elect WPA),

Robert Freedman, Michelle Riba,

Kenneth Kendler, and Susan Miller.

A visible presence of a number of WPA Sci-

entific Sections at the recently held meeting

of ISNP at the 5th International Congress

on Neurobiology, Psychopharmacology and

Treatment Guidance in Chalkidiki, Greece,

on May 25th-28th, 2017 proved an important

milestone for the success of this scientific con-

gress. This Congress was co-sponsored by the

WPA and it was held under the auspices of

the School of Medicine Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki, Greece and the Hellenic Psychi-

atric Association. Special focus of the Con-

gress was on the neurocognitive functions and

the interdisciplinary and collaborative care.

Chairs of WPA Sections from Evidence

Based Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Sleep

Wakefulness Disorders, Immunology and

Psychiatry, Genetics in Psychiatry, Mental

Health, Psychiatry, Law and Ethics and Inter-

disciplinary Collaboration presented in the

scientific programme along with the WPA

Secretary for Scientific Sections Dr. Afzal

Javed. A special feature was the Award Cer-

emony where Prof. Angelos Halaris, Chair of

Section on Immunology and Psychiatry and

Prof. Constantin Soldatos were given special

awards in recognition of their contributions

to psychiatry and research.

iNTER SECTioNAl MEETiNG, ChAlKiDiKi, GREECE

Award ceremony: Constantin Soldatos, Ange-los Halaris, Afzal Javed (WPA Secretary for Scientific Sections), and others are seen.

WPA NEWS July 2017

MATTERS FoR WPA NEWSPlease send all matter for publication in the WPA News to

Prof. Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, Secretary General, wpasecretariat@wpanet.org.

A copy may be marked to roykalli@gmail.com

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PoSiTiVE PSyChiATRy

Positive Psychiatry is a newer branch of psy-

chiatry dedicated to the science and practice

of enhancing positive psychosocial health and

wellbeing. The Positive Psychiatry Section

was established in 2016, our inaugural news-

letter published in the summer of last year.

See http://www.wpanet.org/detail.

php?section_id=11&content_id=1760

Clinician tools to promote brain health and

resilience in practice are now developed.

Visit https://fountainofhealth.ca/clinicians-

corner to access free mental wellness promo-

tion materials to use in frontline care. Com-

munity applications of positive psychiatry

are outlined in a paper “Age Friendly Com-

munities Initiative: Public Health Approach

to Promoting Successful Aging”, published

in The American Journal of Geriatric Psy-

chiatry DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.

jagp.2016.07.021

In response to a growing interest in Positive

Psychiatry, this year our Section members

were invited keynotes at the Canadian Acad-

emy of Geriatric Psychiatry Annual Scientif-

ic Meeting, the National Initiative of Care of

the Elderly conference and Baycrest Clinical

Conference, and will also be presenting at

the upcoming American Psychiatric Associa-

tion meeting, Canadian Psychiatric Associa-

tion meeting and Canadian Consortium on

Dementia meeting. Section members Dr.

Dilip Jeste, Dr. Kiran Rabheru and Dr. Bev-

erley Cassidy will co-present at the inaugural

Positive Psychiatry Symposium at the World

Psychiatric Association Congress in Berlin in

the fall 2017, a session that will highlight the

above priorities and activities of the Section.

Keri-Leigh Cassidy

Editor, Section on Positive Psychiatry

During the last months, our Section was ac-

tive at different congresses. In October 2016,

the Section was present with a symposium

on “Sleep and Psychiatry in the Elderly” in

the joint congress of the 16th annual meet-

ing of geriatric psychopharmacology and the

5th international congress on psychiatry and

the neurosciences in Athens, Greece, from

October 6 to 8. Another Section symposium

took place at the 5th international congress

on “Neurobiology, Psychopharmacology

and Treatment Guidance” in Porto Carras,

Chalkidiki, Greece. Issues like therapeutic

sleep deprivation or physical activity in the

treatment of depression were addressed in our

session. The meeting has created a splendid

occasion to exchange and discuss current

problems in sleep bridging the gap

between basic research and clinical

application. For the near future, a

WPA Section symposium is sched-

uled to take place during the WPA

Congress in Berlin in October 2017.

We are looking forward to meeting

any interested colleagues from all

over the world during this upcom-

ing world congress in order to fos-

ter scientific exchange and perhaps

new collaborations.

Martin Hatzinger

Chair, Section on Psychiatry and

Sleep Wakefulness Disorders

PSyChiATRy AND SlEEP WAKEFUlNESS-DiSoRDERS

Chairpersons and speakers of the Section symposium on Psychiatry and Sleep-Wakefulness Disorders in Por-to Carras, Chalkidiki/Greece. From L to R: Christoph Nissen (Switzerland), Edith Holsboer-Trachsler (Swit-zerland), Constantin Soldatos (Greece), Anne Eckert (Switzerland), and Dimitris Dikeos (Greece).

PREVENTiVE PSyChiATRy

Under the auspices of the Section, the World

Health Day was observed on April 7th, in a

grand manner at Pushpagiri Institute of Medi-

cal Sciences, Tiruvalla, India. Theme: “De-

pression- Let’s talk”. Anto Antony, Member of

Parliament, India inaugurated the event and

spoke about the value of mental health and

the necessity of early diagnosis of depression.

He extended his full support to our campaign.

The event was held in collaboration with the

Indian Medical Association and WASP. Roy

Anto Antony Member of Parlia-ment, India lights the lamp to mark the inauguration of the World Health Day 2017. Seen from L to R: Dr. Jacob Abraham, Dr. Roy Abra-ham Kallivayalil (WPA Secretary General), Rev. Dr. Shaji Vazhayil (Chairman PIMS), Dr. Varghese P Punnoose, Dr. CR Radhakrishnan, Dr. TP Thankappan (Principal), and Rev. Dr. Mathew Mazhavan-cheril (Director, Academics).

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Abraham Kallivayalil, Secretary General,

WPA delivered the Presidential Address and

said, for the first time in several years, men-

tal health has been chosen as the theme for

Word Health Day. A major barrier is stigma

which prevents people from seeking help.

Rev. Dr. Shaji Vazhayil (Chairman), Dr. TP

Thankappan (Principal), Rev. Dr. Mathew

Mazhavancheril (Director, Academics), and

Dr. Jacob Abraham (Prof of Community

Medicine) also spoke on the occasion. Dr.

Varghese P Punnoose (Prof & HOD Psychia-

try, Medical College, Kottayam, India) deliv-

ered a special lecture on the theme. A Quiz

competition for medical students and a cul-

tural programme were the other highlights.

Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, Past Chair

UC Garg, Secretary

Section on Preventive Psychiatry

The World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

Section on Psychiatric Rehabilitation is col-

laborating with WAPR (World Association

for Psychosocial Rehabilitation) to host the

2017 Asia Pacific Meeting of WAPR at Bang-

kok, Thailand on 1-3 September 2017. Theme:

“Psychosocial Rehabilitation for Persons with

Psychotic Disorder”. There will be 4 plenary

lectures, 2 plenary symposia, 14 regular sym-

posia, 3 workshops and free communication

both oral and poster presentations. We enthu-

siastically hope that this meeting will stimu-

late great interest and generate the knowl-

edge exchange in psychiatric rehabilitation,

schizophrenia as well as the clinical practice

for management of other mental illnesses. For

more information regarding the WAPR-ACSR

2017, please visit our congress website www.

acsr2017.com or contact the officers of WPA

Section on Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

Pichet Udomratn

Chair, Section on Psychiatric Rehabilitation

upichet@medicine.psu.ac.th

PSyChiATRiC REhABiliTATioN

Members of the WPA Section on HIV/AIDS

Psychiatry met at the APM Annual Meeting

in Austin, Texas on November 11, 2016 and

have continued to work together to develop

proposals for 2017 WPA meetings through-

out the world and for APA, AAPDP, APM,

and EAPM annual meetings. Dr. Karinn

Glover presented at the WPA International

Congress in Cape Town, South Africa in No-

vember 2016. Drs. Alfonso, Ashley, Cohen,

Cozza, and others have submitted Section

and Intersectional proposals for presentation

at the 2017 WPA World Congress in Berlin.

Many members contributed to the second

edition of the Comprehensive Textbook of

AIDS Psychiatry – A Paradigm of Integrated Care. We are pleased to report that the text-book was published by Oxford University

Press in May 2017. It will be available to the

public on or before June 12, 2017 in the USA

and in August 2017 outside the USA. The

textbook was edited by Drs. Cohen, Gorman,

Volberding, Jacobson, and Letendre. Our

HIV Psychiatry Quarterly Updatable Anno-

tated Bibliography can be accessed at:

http://www.apm.org/library/articles/2016-

Q4/hiv.shtml

We are pleased to report that our Section

now has 394 members. We plan to hold

meetings of our Section at the 2017 World

Congress in Berlin and at the APM Annual

Meeting in Palm Springs, California in No-

vember 2017. We look forward to seeing you

there. Please note that our Section now has

a new listserv address: hiv-aids@list.apm.org

We invite you to attend our meetings and ex-

plore our web page at: http://apm.org/sigs/

oap/ We welcome new members and invite

you to join our SIG at: http://www.apm.org/

sigs/oap/signup.shtml

Mary Ann Adler Cohen, Chair

Jordi Blanch, Secretary

WPA Section on HIV/AIDS Psychiatry

hiV/AiDS PSyChiATRy

At the 5th International Congress on Neuro-

biology, Psychopharmacology & Treatment

Guidance held in Chalkidiki, Greece, May 25-

28, 2017, the Section Chair Dr. Angelos Hala-

ris, gave two lectures representing the Section:

i) Role of growth factors in neurogenesis and

depression, and ii) Modulation of inflamma-

tion may arrest neuroprogression in treatment

resistant bipolar depression.

At the WPA World Congress to be held in Ber-

lin, October 8-12, 2017 the Section Symposi-

um titled “The Future of Psychoneuroimmu-

nology: Promises and Challenges” has been

included in the program. The symposium will

be co-chaired by Dr. Angelos Halaris and Dr.

Karl Bechter. At Berlin, a new monograph

will be launched titled: “Neuroprogression

in Psychiatric Disorders”. The monograph is

edited by Dr. Angelos Halaris and Dr. Brian

Leonard and includes chapter contributions

from several members of the Section on Im-

munology and Psychiatry. A meeting of Sec-

tion members will be held during the Con-

gress at which time election of new officers

will take place. The time and place of this

meeting will be announced in due time.

Angelos Halaris

Chair, Section on Immunology and

Psychiatry

iMMUNoloGy AND PSyChiATRy

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PSyCholoGiCAl CoNSEqUENCES oF ToRTURE AND PERSECUTioN

Our Section, at its most recent board meeting

agreed, instead of updating members on regu-

lar scientific activities, to remind all members

of the WPA of its current focus on the proposal

of amending the Madrid Declaration, concern-

ing the banning of participation of medical

doctors in interrogation and torture. We feel

there is urgency to this matter since – as seen

recently in various parts of the world – bounda-

ries between the medical profession, and the

field of war, or authoritarian politics, have been

blurred. As the WPA meeting in Berlin draws

near, we hope for executive approval. This ini-

tiative, submitted to the attention of the WPA

during the regional meeting in Tbilisi, in April

2016, went through a lengthy process of valida-

tion through consultation of experts and en-

dorsement by both members of the Section

as well as other organizations. Furthermore,

it underwent a thorough critical appraisal by

professionals in the field during the round-

table at the WPA meeting in Cape Town, No-

vember 2016. This final document, we believe,

represents a focal point in the recent history of

our medical profession. We call upon our col-

leagues, and our organization, to rally behind

what is most deeply Hippocratic in our oath: a

doctor shall never, first and foremost, do harm

to his/her patient.

Gabriel Diaconu

Co-chair, Section on Psychological

Consequences of Torture and Persecution

WPA: PUBliC EDUCATioN iNiTiATiVES

Public Education Initiatives of WPA have

been carrying out various activities since

WPA Madrid Conference, 2014. It has cre-

ated 18 information capsules on mental ill-

nesses and health; series of ‘Mind’ related

articles every month (print and electronic)

in an international magazine, ‘India Empire’

(15 articles have come out till now); cre-

ated four short films ‘Beneath the Masks’,

‘Beyond the Labels’, ‘Overcoming Depres-

sion’ and ‘Mental Health’ for All, for Life;

has facilitated four Goodwill Ambassadors

of WPA – Mr. Suresh Oberoi, Dr. Mohan

Agashe, Mr. Kunal Nayyar (International

Actors) and Brahmakumari Shivani (moti-

vational s